23: Carrot / Moehre

Carrot / Moehre

An other blushing Mandrake or is it the Healthy Image of Cthulhu? That's definately not like they looked on the seed package. :o( / Schon wieder eine die sich sicher schaemt wie eine Alraune oder sonst ein Monster auszusehen. Wie das Bild auf der Saattuete schaut sie jedenfalls nicht aus. :o(

14 comments so far...

Fizgig December 14, 2017, 04:06 PM

Mutant carrot.... Ruuuuuun! =P~~~~

irrlicht December 14, 2017, 04:54 PM

Im Mini-Bild sah es aus wie ein Oktopus.

Sonja December 14, 2017, 05:10 PM

LOL -- Yes, I sure was tempted to just run away to the store, considering how those things dragged silicate and mud into the house in all those folds and where difficult to peel and dice, but they where surprisingly very tasty. Ordered an other for next spring never the less. I got historic Duwicker now that are an supposedly very wide and short old breed as I fear there is something in the lower layers of soil that do things to longer root veggies as I cant grow any diakon radishes or parsnips either. They do all grow in the image of some monsters instead of getting one neat sharp end. At the least the Rote Riesen where eatable after some time of scrubbing, whittling and making a mess. The pointy white roots alas tend to have the consistency of fir boards. :o(

Sonja December 14, 2017, 05:26 PM

Sag ich ja :o(
Bauernregel:
Hast Du R'lyeh im Garten und Gondor dazu,
dann kauf's Gemuese beim Aldi und gib endlich Ruh.....

David B December 14, 2017, 10:15 PM

That is quite the tuber! It would make very interesting centerpiece for a garden salad at your next dinner party. :o)

Sonja December 15, 2017, 01:02 PM

Want to further bad tschernobyl jokes at the table, Dave? ;o)
This is southern Germany, and some of us old enough to remember the rain into May 1986 have funny associations when they see any veggie "mutants".
I am quite convinced, what ever is up with my soil, it is not radioactive or something, rather that pebble drainage starts to early below the surface. After all, this is an apartment blocks ground floor allotment. So I researched and hunted down a stout old breed suitable for problem soil for trying next year and may also dig a bit deeper and buy a further bag of certified veggie soil or two to mix in.

frabax December 16, 2017, 08:11 PM

in sandigem Boden werden sie gerader, der ist aber halt auch nicht so Nährstoffreich, iergendwas is immer, drum, wie du schon sagst, ab zu Aldi

Andy Rodker December 17, 2017, 04:07 PM

With shingles (herpes zoster) affecting my lower parts, this is how they feel at the moment (they actually look worse!).
But a good find and shot!

Sonja December 17, 2017, 06:39 PM

!!!!!Andy!!!!!!!

Just get well, no jokes with the top end that may anoy your bottom end, ya hear!?

Sonja December 17, 2017, 06:53 PM

Frabax, ja, bei Aldi und auch beim angeblich besseren Edeka gibts sogenannte Karotten in Kilopack, die sehen aus wie welche schmecken leider nur nach so wenig -- und am Stadtmarkt und im Hoflaedle gibt es dann noch ziemlich unbezahlbares Gemuese das oft nur wenig besser als meines aussieht. Das ist ja warum ich es selber versuche. Erst mal sehen wie die Duwicker naechstes Jahr geraten. Laut Beschreibung sind die ja das Ende meiner Moehrensorgen..... "die sehr alte, kurze, kreiselförmige, hellorange und süße Frühkarotte wird auch auf schweren Böden nicht beinig und ist leicht zu ernten". Hoffentlich weiss das auch der Inhalt vom Paeckchen....

David B December 17, 2017, 09:57 PM

I don't think your soil, Sonja, is any more radioactive than anyone else on the planet; at least not this day and age. With all of the disasters, like Fukushima, or what ever they've been spraying in the atmosphere for the better part of the last decade, we're all "in the same boat" in that regard.

You should have seen some of the mutant potatoes we've harvested from our garden these last couple of years!

David.

David B December 17, 2017, 09:59 PM

Get well soon, Andy!

Sonja December 18, 2017, 01:30 PM

Dave, I know it is likely that today urban gardening is not very much healthier than the worst mainstream veggies sans bio-seal in the supemarket. Still, it is a lot better for great taste, low budget and in some ways the environment if one grows at least some of what they eat. After all, what you grow from a seed has been shipped lightly and not as a heavy big fruit. I just like cooking really well tasting meals with as little stress and costs to myself and to what little of intact habitat is still left as is possible.

So I rather grow carrots and radishes than roses and peonies in the strip below the livingroom window -- LOL

The radioactivity sure is likely no big deal outside the heads of some old hippies that suddenly rediscovered canned champions and milk in the mid-80s. It is just still the usual stupid joke when someone has huge or bizarre veggies and offers them to others in a way they can see the size and form, and for some it is still unsettling when it is many tailed. Not that a tuber from the supermarket with only one tail can't be unsettling just from associations too....

Last year I bought a big diacon at Kaufland, and whilst getting the bag from the car to the back entrance my husband had a really weird tounge-in-cheque question on the spelling of it's german name. I did understand at once....

See this page, (if needed also the link to the faximile on it):